Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1921, Page 21

N\ “We've been waiting for you, Clancy.” McCasty spoke without preamble. From 5 What 'we. observed Just 3 2 L fis: 0 back to the house first if he's got work, Demny,” McCarty #aid after & omething else'on his'mind?’ Dennis{pause. ‘“’Twas a lone’ hand that was was disposed to argument. - “T! played last night; the hand that held lttle Creveling needs.of & valet gow.” | the plstc oever did ths phoning|to. « d Poor he'll not be caught [found out’ about it somehow, and ‘was h you get - > playlng a different - game. There's z the side-streot 4 Clancy, now, coming out of that area- way - winlnc the gyouth of him on country place, and I'm thinking that|the back of his hand! The force is not ’ts maybe' bec OF a woEE tha TLaL 1% tged 1o be. when I'was pound- Hill won’t" open - his mouth about where he was last night” s L thoey Poming, ‘biyaT . Clancy | f It might not be the sime woman, Y omdrae oo chearful cgrin: = }about him Hill did not even look back, | though.” Dennis suggested_helpfull: hd T might T somewhere around, but walked on As though lost in|“Perhaps the woman that phoned was fmight have known. Riordan thought yet with a definite object in|put up to it'by the man that kilied view. , He crnsaedh-n Dnturlaclfil. u::- Creveling.” e ) nue or. two and then, on reaching the|, “The one that killed #Creveling put fashionable thoroughfare on the|nobody else up fo do tarther side of which rose the park ing iy of the Uity wall, he turned north. “Where's he making for?” muttered Dennis. Q “Where would any faithful employe be going when he's freed from being under an unjuet suspicion but back to the place where he works?” McCarty returned. “I told you he'd play safe. *Tig the Creveling house, no less, that he's headed for, now and there it is B v was striding toward the avenue. s a fine subject you nh:li.d but_he's only calling the inspector’ bluff =nd playing safe.” With .one. accord they turned and started off in the wake iof that delib~ erate figure ahead and as they passed the corner the slouching youth reap- | peared from nowhere and trailed |along unobtrusively in the rear. || After that firat comprehensive glance 'HOW MANY CARDS? Author of “The Island of Intrigue,” “Suspense,” “Ashes to ‘Ashes,” ets. | Copyright, 1921, by Robert M. McBride & Co. back yard? We'll probably be wanting to come out this same way along-about | ing’ morning, but if we don’t therel be nothing to kick up a racket about. It be just as well, though, if you pick through the _and_scul . one that don't know the servapts at the|an. : ook, Crevelings' £ that's ex- ‘Sure, Clancy . “‘Getting you through, An As to keeping llt“ from the helpl:z‘ the' Forests® be with you. I know as well as ou do that 'twas no suicide last night, ut T'm_glad the inspector’ took' it out of my hands;,i'll be a herd nut -to young artisan out to keep a tryst with the girl of his-choice, or a mere, idler of the nélghborhood, but there was a curlous contrast between the indolence of his attitude gnd the covertly alert expression im the gaze which he shifted alternatély from the westward corner to the precinct station house a tew yards away. The trafflc for the day had ceased, but the .street was alive with shop- keepers ‘and denizens of the modest gats on either side of the way, who. reed from-the routine of work, were thronging -out for a breath of the balmy ‘spring air. Two .figures, one tall and lanky. and the other shorter |just ahead” - and heavy sef, rounded the corner,| They slackened their pace and were W0 | mingling ‘with the passersby, and ap- | a full block behind when Hill stopped Ly Den. pPTo#ched the youthful lounger. They |t the trudesmen's entrance of the “Tomorrow will be another day,” Den-fpassed with no s:gn of recognition, | white stone house and pulled out his nis remarked. *“What if we had a quiet | but as soom as they had gone a few | key. Flattening themselves in the AL le datevof our|P3CCS Dbevond he “threw away his|shadow of the-same cornice beneath ‘Because we've a little date ol Our |clgarette and sauntered off in the di-| which McCarty had éffaced himself n downtown,” ~retorte arty.|rection in which they had first ap-|when he trailed the embryo burglar " (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) ¢ “Like a gambler,” Dennis nodded. “Why did she break her dates and run a chance of getting in Dutch with the very people she'd been try!ng to kpow all theSe years?" pursued Mc- Carty. “Why did she keep that old leech around her at'all if she knew the woman was om-to her; for-a cloak? Ot course, if all' this has nothing to tdo with Creveling's death and her little game, whatever’ it is, doesn’t " come ungder the statutes I'm wasting time and brains on her, but tomor- Tow she'll comre across with an alibi for last night or I'll take her down Crevelings’, the cook at the de two doors away had-a run-in with Sarah, the butler’s wife, and she WoR't 1 A New- Night Set—Pitcher - and Glass Very. specially priced at Breakfast:-" -~ -Table = . -Douglas Fir,. - Drop-leaf - style... 36 .inches round when open. .;Ul.l gg‘“'fl“\i co F o 512 NINTH STREET there's the Fords. She was ready enough to talk until she let that slip_about expecting to see Creveli at Cutter’s house the night before, an then she looked for a minute as though she could have cut her tongue out. Why? her band afraid of her talking, too. “I should think when you heard him ask her if she knew and then say that they were done for, you would have called it a day and run him in,” Dennis observed. “‘When the two of them had a per- fectly good alibi that Cutter hi 1t ‘vouches for?” snorted McCarty. se the brains that God gave you, Denny, and don’t be criticising your betters! T'm thinking Ford’s trouble was not as to how Creveling died, but that he was dead, and 'twas not grief that was con- suming him, either!” “Then what was {t?” Dennis de- manded, nettled at the rebuke. “That’'s one of about a million que tions I'm after asking myself,” ac mitted McCarty. “The Crevelings’ doc- tfor wasn’'t any help, nor yet Mr “Waverly.” < ‘She’s on to her husband's gallivant- ing, though, that’s plain.” Dennis at- peared. A short distance from the door of the station house the two newcomers haited, the taller facing it, the other with+his back turned squarely. Loosen up, Denny, and .act careless like!” warned the latter. “If you had whiskers youd look for all the world like & cat watching a ‘mouse hole! 2Tis well you took up fire fighting, for you wokild never have made a first- class dick. “Is that s6!" retorted Dennis. *“I mind a -time when you mistook: a murdering blackguard for a member of “the British aristocracy—not but what. the two would be a possible combination—and 'twas a blind man that beat'you to the truth! How can I tell it's the right man we'll be fol- lowing 'when he comes out of ‘there, and me never laying eyes on him be- fore. if I dow't watch?" - “You could tell him with the tail of a_ glance” McCarty assured him. “He logks like a preacher that's bur- ith the sins of the world and hasn’t ‘been eating regularly. If 1 don’t miss my guess he'll turn in this direction, so the minate you see him tacked his second piece of pie with|bhegin to talk loud. but you needn’t gusto. but she was taking no chances on prov- ing him a liar by calling up evep to.tell him about Creveling. She's probably got over the quarreling stage and had rather let well enough alone. Whe put up \that ten_thousand dollars bail for the girl llsa? Where Is she now? Who's back of her?” “The jewels don’t matter but I tell OII', Denny, I'd like a few words with “Let her go,” advised Dennis, quite as though the elusive Ilsa were within Teach of their hands. *Tis not a thiev- ing housemaid you're after but the man that shot Creveling.™ “The man that shot him may never be found.” McCarty remarked, and then at his companion’s stare of incredulity he added hastily: “Cutter is the smooth- est proposition of them all. Of course, his alibi is as they were all together in his house, but. why did he try to steer me on to the idea of Insanity as the reason for Creveling’s supposed suicide?” “But you say he's of a grand old family with money and position and all; ‘what's he got to be afraid of in an § vestigation?” protested Dennis. Creveling was murdered and he thinks he knows who did it why shoul shield him?" . “What is he doing, or the O'RourRes. as the Fords' since i something your “He sald he'd be at the Belterre, } shout enough to attract his attention, and don't call me ‘Mac.’ Just make him think you're minding your own business.” “And what'll I be talking about?" Denunis demanded in some alarm. “I'm no hand at speech—Glory be! Here he comes!"” A tall, spare figure in clerical black had appeared in the doorway of the station house and paused, gazing de- liberately up and down . the street. Dennis shot out a lean arm’in a ges- ture that was intended to be argu- mentative. “T'll never believe it of you, Terry!” he declared in a loud, Indignant tone. “He's not the lad to go back on his friends and what's the good of being a citizen and having a vote #f you can’t: swing it to them that'll put way later?—He's turned this way! Now he's coming!— As 1 was saying. it's the persuading tongue in his head that Terry has, all right, and the boys are with him. If he says he'll carry the ward for a friend he'll do it! “And if gle goes aroundlooking for a polling Place. in the sprihg of the year_ he’s liable to be run in for a for Frank Hill had passed them and on the previous night, they saw him unlock the'qoor and disappear within. ‘And now 7% Dennis demanded. “Here comes Martin; are you going to leave him t6 watch ‘the place?” “There's a blank wall that sur- rounds the yard/space at the rear like a well with never a door nor an opening that_ a man could crawl through as far as I could see this morning, but I'm taking no chance.” McCarty responded. “The houses on both sides of the Crevelings are closed, but ther® might be a wa: he could get out, at that. Martin!” he added, as the detective from head- { quarters 'approached. ]| _“Go back a couple of blocks, cross {the avenue and climb over the park I wall; creep along the other- side of it till you are just opposite the Creve- {1ing-house—'tis that white one there in the middle of the next block—and watch both doors. You got & good look at Hill?" “Sure; down at headquarters today, when the chief was hauling him over [the coals” Martin replied. “Me and, | Yost both give him the once over. He ain't ever been mugged, I could swear to that.” “Well, keep your ‘éyes peeled and if he comes out again give a squeeze to this and then trail him.” From beneath his coat McCarty produced an object not unlike a small motor_horn land handed it to the other. “If he don’t come out stay where you'll be till ‘you hear two quick honks of a Rorn like that one, or we join you, if it's morning. Understand?” “Right, Mac” Martin grinned at Denny. “The chief thought your side kick here would be with you. 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